Cleaver (Stone Age tool)
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cleaver-stone-age-tool-235-10006344
title:
Cleaver (Stone Age tool)
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In archaeology, a cleaver is a type of biface stone tool of the Lower Palaeolithic. Cleavers resemble hand axes in that they are large and oblong or U-shaped tools meant to be held in the hand. But, unlike hand axes, they have a wide, straight cutting edge running at right angles to the axis of the tool. Acheulean cleavers resemble handaxes but with the pointed end truncated away. Flake cleavers have a cutting edge created by a tranchet flake being struck from the primary surface.
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Biface stone tool
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaver_(Stone_Age_tool)
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2024-01-20T23:03:49Z
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